chapter 10:

Zhou stopped walking for a minute and looked confused.

"what do you mean?"

We haven't arrived in Wang Jing exactly we were at the crossroad where we could keep going south east or west.

"I don't want to decide your future for you. There are people in Soho nearby."

"I will come with you."

***

The sun had set once we had arrived.

I stared at the massive building complex with three massive ovals protruding the ground. i had to find Issel now.

I checked my phone to see if there are any major directions.

I-- "we have well over 50 survivors now"

Friday 9:00pm

I-- "there have been a different species of monsters nearby, if you come, be careful"

Friday 9:01pm

I-- "we relocated to the 10th floor of the main building. We've blocked the stairs off. text if you come. I'm going offline"

Saturday 1:09pm

I had 3% power left. This had to be quick.

P—"BITCH I'm alive in soho."

Tuesday 8:06pm

P—"I didn't have enough power to reply. Im on 3% right now."

Tuesday 8:06pm

P— "im coming up. please open the stairs"

Tuesday 8:07pm

I--// attatched file of a hand holding a bat//

Tuesday 8:07pm

I—"they're open for 10 minutes. Be fast."

Tuesday 8:07pm

"We need to leave. Right now."

"Where are we going?"

"The 10th floor of the main building. I will guide you… we have 10 minutes"

We ran to the larger building surrounded by the stores and entered the well marbled floor that was scattered by dry blood and broken glass.

"there's been an attack"

Zhou started breathing heavily as he ran up the stairs. I don't think hes used to any of this excersise.

After the 5th flight I shut my mouth.

Pant pant pant.

We finally arrived at an entrance blocked by office furniture and a closed door. I reached my arm into the barricade of office furniture and knocked on the door. Loud and Rushed footsteps came and pulled the door open with incredible speed.

A woman with glasses slightly shorter than me froze and stared at my face. Her outfit was a torn jumper and a dress. Her black hair was tied loosely in a ponytail with her eyebrows fading. She seemed to have several bandages across her arm along with several bruises.

We unfroze at the same moment and crashed into a long awaited hug. She was truly like an elder sister to me. the best I could ever ask for.

"Sorry I couldn't reply this week"

"Dumbass could at least check his messeges."

"shut your cupcake ass up"

We let go of each other and she looked at zhou.

"Whose the skinny guy?"

"a guy I picked up on the road here. Figured he could need some help"

Zhou hid behind me and whispered a "h-hi" in an incredibly low voice

"aww isn't he so cute. I just want to take his liver!"

I chuckled at the joke but the monkey man didn't find anything funny. Infact he backed off further.

"come in, ass"

I followed issel into the 10th floor and saw a community of survivors. Children were crying and adults soaked themselves in despair. Besides us 3, everyone else was sitting on the floor with blank expressions. There was a thick stench of blood, urine, and feces throughout the building. The windows were open, but it didn't get much better. I wondered what smells were under the feces…

"petra by the way, why do you not smell as bad as anyone here?" "we haven't showered for"

Issel counted her fingers.

"I stayed by a gym up in Shunyi. There were showers there"

"also, for someone as smart as you, shouldn't you stop using your fingers to count"

"shut your rock ass up"

This was nice. Both of us weren't too affected by the world crashing. Or atleast we played it out that way.

"Petra. Come with me" issel looked at me in a serious demeanor.

I followed her to an isolated room and stared at the city with her.

"did you have anything show up on your wrists" she asked.

I wasn't prepared for this one being the first question, but it was natural.

"yeah. Two circles; one on each wrist."

"the same with me. how did they appear"

"I killed a dragon inside out. And I ripped the dick off. And I used its legs to make a spear" I gestured to my spear.

Issel looked at me wide eyed for a moment before laughing. "a fucking dragon??" "shouldn't you be dead right now?"

"well a kid died Infront of me and I had like some shitty adrenaline rush and ended up melting its intestines while it was moving"

She just stared at me like I was crazy

"yeah and a voice told me to latch onto its humongous penis to open and enter its stomach" "I kind of like de-birthed myself by entering a dragons stomach using its dick"

Issel started to see the weird looking edge of my spear and understand my story

"Petra holy fucking shit how the fuck-"

"I ended being able to melt things" I pressed my hand to the glass and melted it infront of Issel.

She stared in amazement and asked "is there anything else you can do?"

"I can also freeze things" I froze the red hot glass into a new shape. "when I use this with something that has water in it, I can evaporate their body."

She watched the glass. "strangely enough I can also think faster when I activate the left symbol. And I got a bit stronger after gaining the left symbol."

I turned to Issel "what about you? What can you do?"

"Uh…" she spat on the floor and the spit started floating "I can move water?"

"And like I can think faster?"

"How do you do that?" I was excited. This meant that there was more than just fire ice and wind.

I realized she might think im looking down on her.

"Shut your ass up" she snapped back at me. "a green monster with a crooked back threw itself at me in the streets and started biting at my arms."

" I grabbed the nearest thing, which was a bat, and started beating its head. It dodged half of them though."

"the thing kept lunging itself closer and closer to the neck until I spat in its eyes and beat it one more time. then something tingled in my left and right wrists and I was able to slap the thing with the spitball I made"

Issel gathered the spit into a ball shape and threw it across the room without touching it.

"I managed to both beat the shit out of it with a bat and a spitball. But that wasn't enough"

"The thing on my left hand started tingling really hard and I started thinking like I wasn't in my body, like I was in an out of body scenario."

"yeah, so one thing led to another I ended up drawing the water out of its eyeballs, and subsequently the moisture in its brain."

 I stared in amazement. Is this the power of a genius? understanding the intricacies between the and gaps of the organs in a monster she'd never encountered before.

"It started seizing up and I beat its head a couple more times until it stopped moving. That and there was a massive hole in the side of its head. Honestly pretty proud of myself"

We both looked at the burning city through the window. hundreds of massive grey dots started roaming the streets and started to kill and eat green dots. the green dots were what Issel killed.

"This isn't good"